Bubbles in a sea of consciousness

Nuerosurgeon Deepak Ranade, speaks out about innate spirituality:

All creation is analogous to bubbles in the vast expanse of consciousness. Realisation involves loss of this separateness from the surrounding water, a sense of just merging into the water. It is dissolution of that membrane of separateness called the ego. If this dissolution occurs during the journey of life, it would be similar to the bubble losing the differentiating membrane on the way travelling from the bottom of the sea to the top. When the mind-body organism ends (death) it would be the equivalent of the bubble reaching the surface and then just popping. This bubble has a plethora of forms and shapes. But still just a transient identification of being separate.

The separateness that desires this enlightenment is the ego, the identification with the mind-body organism. The consciousness that animates this mind-body form is the true Self.

Religious orientation and beliefs are not congenital. They are a product of conditioning.

A subtle ego-trip puts the individual on a pedestal because he is in pursuit of the intangible. All attempts to seek or reach God probably induce a state of moral well-being. Probably, the labourer who sweats it out in the heat and lives an ego-less existence is far more spiritual than the hymn-singing affluent person.

Any belief system that segregates cannot be a spiritual path. If we are unanimous in the belief that the Creator is One, He cannot be partial to any one clan or sect. Because that automatically disqualifies all other belief systems from reaching the ultimate truth. So science should help us redefine religion and metamorphose it from the ritualistic domain into a more all-inclusive and all-embracing state of mind, not cleaved by differences. Then we might realise that we are all just drops of water in this vast ocean of Creation.